Part of the Global Plot to Expose Moonbats, conspiracy nuts, and anti-Semites, especially the Jewish anti-Semitic variety.
The leftwing Neo-Nazi web magazine Counterpunch has described Plaut thus: "One of the most pernicious writers is Steven Plaut, a man who could be thought of as Israel's Daniel Pipes."

Friday, April 06, 2012

The Latest Passover News

What's New in Passover?

Daniel Moshe Levy and Joseph Rothstein are two Israeliarcheologists who have devoted their careers to comparingarcheological evidence with Biblical accounts. They are serious guys. Not everyone likes what they do.

They have a new book in which they claim that if one corrects forthe dating that traditionally was thought to identify the Pharaohs ofthe Biblical account of the Exodus, then there is actually an amazingamount of archeological evidence that is consistent with and supportsmuch of the Biblical account.

They claim that most historians assume that the Biblical accountsare referring to the Pharaoh Ramses and his son, part of the 16thdynasty, where a large statue of Ramses appears in the Egyptian townof Memphis. The two Israeli archeologists believe the Biblical eventsare actually associated with different Pharaohs, those who lived athousand years earlier. They base this claim in part on reports byHerodotus about legends he had heard from Egyptian pagan priests.These included the Pharaoh who dreamed of a pregnant woman whoseoffspring would grab the reign away from him, after which he orderedall male children drowned in the Nile. There are also somearcheological reports consistent with the plagues. A Russian-Jewishscientist named Immanuel Velikovsky(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanuel_Velikovsky) found an ancientEgyptian papyrus report on the Nile turning to blood and the landaround it turning barren, accompanying by mass deaths. There was alsoan Egyptian report, known as the Prophecy of Nacho, describing massdrowning A different report tells of a genius in Egypt during theseven years of famine, considered the wisest man in the country andlater worshipped as a demigod. This was during the second and thirddynasties. The archeologists claim that the Biblical word for whatthe Hebrew slaves were building, Cities of Miskanut, is based on theancient root SKN, which referred to grave monuments, and so couldrefer to the pyramids, constructed as massive tombs

Finally a tomb was discovered for a later Pharaoh, with aninscription now in the Cairo Museum, reading, "I destroyed thechildren of Israel and none of their seed remains." It was found ona tomb of a Pharaoh who had drowned to death. There are not too manyplaces in Egypt where someone can drown.